10-Sep-2017: UNSC unanimously adopts new sanctions against North Korea.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously stepped up sanctions against North Korea on Monday over the country’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, imposing a ban on the country’s textile exports and capping imports of crude oil. It was the ninth sanctions resolution unanimously adopted by the 15-member council since 2006 over North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

Sanctions include:

Limits on imports of crude oil and oil products. China, Pyongyang’s main economically, supplies most of North Korea’s crude oil.

A ban on exports of textiles, which is Pyongyang’s second-biggest export worth more than $700m (£530m) a year.

Measures to limit North Koreans from working overseas, which the US estimates would cut off $500m of tax revenue per year.

Pyongyang has staged a series of missile tests in recent months that appeared to bring much of the US mainland into range. It followed up with a sixth nuclear test on September 3, its largest to date, which it said was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. The United States and its allies argue that tougher sanctions will pile pressure on Kim’s regime to come to the negotiation table to discuss an end to its nuclear and missile tests. Russia and China are pushing for talks with North Korea, but their proposal for a freeze on Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear tests in exchange for suspending US-South Korean military drills has been rejected by the United States.